Wouldn't that make for a poisonous relationship?

Rollins is famous in Washington for two things: managing Ronald Reagan's successful reëlection campaign against Walter Mondale in 1984, and developing poisonous relationships with most of his high-profile employers since then.

But I think we have to look at this contract as a start toward addressing the poisonous relationships of the last few years.

Officials at the New York State Department of Education described a "longstanding, poisonous relationship" between the union and Greenburgh 11 but said the state had no authority to intervene.

Sklenicka's biography is invaluable as a chronicle of Carver's growth as a writer, particularly in its account of his difficult, ultimately poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.

Also, where else may one learn of a possible misinterpretation of Shaw's will, Peale's possibly poisonous relationships with his sons and of the religious significance of juggernaut.

Mr. Kheel initially discouraged the artists from hiring him in 1979 because of his poisonous relationship with Mayor Edward I. Koch.

The poisonous relationship between the divorced couple has affected everyone around them.

Caught in a poisonous relationship with a popular professor, begun while she was only 14, Katherine is nearly as wounded as Chuck.

Ms. Hooper portrays the poisonous relationship between Dr. Kettlewell and his eccentric supervisor at Oxford, E. B. Ford, known as Henry.